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Source: Enterline Design Services LLCFormer Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, one of the first conservatives to be canceled back in 2010-2012 (along with me as collateral damage), has started a docuseries profiling other Christian conservatives whom the left targeted. “For many years, a quiet crisis affecting millions of Americans has grown and gone without remedy,” he opens. “In the early 21st century, a militant secular Left captured America’s centers of wealth and power. Because of prejudice and hostility from monied and powerful left-wing interest groups, those who publicly opposed the Left often lost their careers, businesses, livelihoods or reputations.” In...

"It takes two to lie -- one to lie and one to listen." The late lamented Christopher Hitchens wrote a book about Bill (and to a lesser extent Hilary) Clinton entitled ‘No One Left to Lie To.” While Hitchens was a brilliant polemicist whose notorious wit could turn instantaneously from sledgehammer to scalpel and back again, he was not, it appears, a terribly good prognosticator. There are still people left to lie to and, sadly, there always will be. Imagine, if you will, the parable of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf” updated for today. Instead of the boy's lie being...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem2 Corinthians 11 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia: 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Praise to the God of All Comfort 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with...

This is a video of a black LED light over a NHS lateral flow test that has not been used to determine if some is Covid positive. As we can see in the video the tests are already have a pre determined mark on them if you are a positive or not. This explains a lot of the mixed results from multiple tests. https://youtu.be/GJkmBAP0IPY This is how an assay test works.There is a control line (C) and a Test line (T). You usually place 3 drops of urineor other fluid onto the test strip to obtain a result. The Test...

Russia has notified Ireland of Russian naval exercises in international waters in the Irish Sea, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Monday, adding that they were unwelcome.

CAPE RACE, Thursday, Jan. 23. The steamship City of New-York, which left Liverpool on Wednesday, the 8th, via Queenstown on Thursday, the 9th inst., passed this point at 10 o'clock this morning. She was intercepted by the News yacht of the Associated press, and the following important intelligence will be fond in her dispatches: The steamship Europe, from Boston, arrived at Liverpool on the 6th instant. The City of New-York reports having experienced strong westerly gales during the entire passage. Pending the arrival of the Europe there was a feeling of great suspense in England, but the Funds were but...

Covid-19 restrictions could be loosened in France from February onwards, the prime minister has said, shortly after the country’s Covid vaccination pass comes into effect. Jean Castex said on Thursday the pass will come into effect on 24 January, provided it gets approved by the constitutional council. From 2 February, guidance recommending employees work from home three days a week would be dropped, with remote working arrangements now at the discretion of individual workers and their bosses. Nightclubs would reopen from 16 February. Castex said that the general Covid situation in the country was becoming more favourable. He added that...

A little covid humor https://youtu.be/2RYRQsgXgGo

Earlier this week, samples taken from white-tailed deer in southwestern Ontario were found positive for COVID-19. And in Hong Kong, the government announced a massive cull of thousands of pet hamsters and other small animals due to worries that they could carry and transmit the virus to humans. Cats and mink are also known to carry the virus. Unlike other animal species, however, pigs appear resistant to infection and do not transmit the virus to other animals, previous research has found.

Virginia’s new Republican attorney general has fired University of Virginia’s counsel, who was on leave from his job to work as the top investigator for U.S. House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, the attorney and university said. Tim Heaphy, who had worked at the state school for about three years, was among roughly 30 staffers who were let go by Jason Miyares shortly before he took office a little over a week ago. Democrats have questioned the firings and how they were carried out. Victoria LaCivita, a Miyares spokeswoman, said the attorney general’s office...

Every year, a few vocal multimillionaires and billionaires publicly announce that there is nothing they would like more than to finally pay more taxes. Every such announcement attracts a great deal of media attention. After all, there is one rule journalists learn very early in their careers: “Dog bites postman is not a story, postman bites dog is.” This is a typical “postman bites dog” news story. Over the last few days, the media was again awash with reports that a group of more than 100 millionaires from nine countries have called on governments to make them pay more taxes....

A California mother has taken legal action against a school district with the explosive claim that staffers manipulated her middle-school daughter into aligning as transgender, saying they encouraged her to change her name, pronouns and gender identity behind her mother’s back. Jessica Konen filed a claim last week against the Spreckels Union School District, two teachers and a principal seeking damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil-rights violations over policies she says allowed the staff to prod her daughter into identifying as transgender starting in sixth grade. “These are the disgusting behaviors and tactics of predators, who have...

Those who are too addled to remember or understand the past may doom us all to repeat it. For those who pay attention to history, it’s completely unnerving watching Joe Biden seemingly plan to drag America into a war in and over Ukraine. The great powers’ focus on this little country is eerily reminiscent of the start of WWI, a war that laid the groundwork for everything wrong with the last 108 years of Western history. Ukraine, a small, corrupt country on Russia’s southeastern edges, was once part of the former Soviet Union. For reasons that make absolutely no sense,...

Several years ago, in speaking with a friend who was an official of South Korea's conservative, pro-U.S. political party, then called the "Liberty Korea Party" and now known as the "People Power Party," I was gently informed that as an American, I would not be able to fully comprehend the problems faced by Korean conservatives in their struggles with their leftist opponents. Seeking to satisfy my curiosity, I nevertheless pressed my friend to disclose to me the nature of these difficulties faced by his party and by Korean conservatives more broadly. It was the reply which I received that forever...

Attorney General Jason S. Miyares has fired the university counsels of the University of Virginia and George Mason University: Tim Heaphy at UVa and Brian Walther at GMU. I have no inside knowledge about why Miyares took these actions, but they are, I believe, best understood as the opening salvos in what will be a long-term effort by Miyares and Governor Glenn Youngkin to change the increasingly totalitarian culture of Virginia’s higher-ed system that stifles free speech and free expression. In Virginia the governor appoints members of the boards of visitors, but the attorney general appoints the university counsels. BoV...

The author of the new book, Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win," reveals shocking information to Mark Levin on how China has bought off the POTUS and many others, including tech oligarchs and some Republicans. Sunday’s edition of Life, Liberty, and Levin, the one-hour long-form interview show hosted by Mark Levin on Fox News is essential viewing. If you don’t have just over a half hour to watch the almost-complete show (embedded below), I strongly recommend that you spend a mere 3 minutes and 20 seconds watching a summary off his research findings on the Biden family’s...

While that title sounds like a Robert Ludlum novel, it’s actually the confusion I encountered just before and after I recovered last week from my second round of COVID. My first fight with delta – which I wrote about here 3 months ago – was much more serious, affecting my lungs and requiring the monoclonal antibody infusion, when Regeneron still worked for COVID. Omicron, on the other hand, was a super-mild cold that lasted 3 days. But the real kicker was how little doctors, pharmacists, and other medical professionals understood about the booster, immunity, and testing when it comes to...

Scientists have estimated the number of "small" black holes in the universe. And no surprise: It's a lot. This number might seem impossible to calculate; after all, spotting black holes is not exactly the simplest task. Because they're are as pitch-black as the space they lurk in, the light swallowing cosmic goliaths can be detected only under the most extraordinary circumstances — like when they're bending the light around them, snacking on the unfortunate gases and stars that stray too close, or spiraling toward enormous collisions that unleash gravitational waves. But that hasn't stopped scientists from finding some ingenious ways...

The vaccines are proving to be a constantly moving target. Two shots will save us. No, three will. No, better make it four. Heck, let’s just keep it open-ended but you better get shots if you want to work, shop, eat out, go to a concert, maybe even board a plane. But what happens to this manic shot regime when we’re beginning to get data showing that, not only do the shots not prevent people from getting COVID (which is the traditional effect of a vaccine) but that they may actually leave people more vulnerable to COVID? Israel, which was...

Former Nevada Attorney Adam Laxalt is vying to be the 51st Republican Senator should he flip the U.S. Senate seat this November. If Laxalt clinches the Republican nomination, he’ll face incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), a vulnerable Democrat, in the general election. As of this writing, Cook Political Report rates the Nevada Senate race as a “Toss-Up.” The odds are greatly in his favor given the endorsements he’s raked in and his campaign’s sizable war chest. He has secured endorsements from former President Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), Senator Tom...